Individuality FAIL.
If ever there was a time to feel threatened, this would be it for me.
However, I’m not talking about mixing, tune selection or charisma. All that stuff doesn’t bother me. However when someone makes it pretty clear by actions alone that they would like to pierce your arse with their baby wand, you do tend to get the feeling that “backs to the wall” could be a worthwhile exercise. Especially when that someone is clearly unaware to their dementia and cannot let go of something he’s never had, and never will get. I’m sorry. I don’t take it up the trumper Dean. Except for when the missus is PMT’ing and needs to thrash her anger out….
When having the originality depth of a slice of cheese, it seems you find yourself drifting away from your own personal character, your individuality is cloaked by the illusion of being someone else, and it covers your deep down feelings and thoughts. So when Dean Hodgson (or DJ Deano, or Vip3r^) spends his “online career” imitating others recreating their work as his, and even pretending to be them, it makes me think, what is there to be hidden by the boy?
Maybe this is down to the lad suffering from certain conditions. When I think a little deeper about his behaviour towards me & others for the past 3 years or so, you have to consider Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder. His one-way trip down the crazy path consists of more copying, more stealing, more sneaking, more denial. Of course, it’s not my place to diagnose him with one of these mind-numbing mental disorders. I’d instead like to guess he’s got all three!
Every radio station he has become a DJ staff member of, it has had to close it’s doors for good in the following weeks or months. With the exceptions of a school radio “career”, and his one-off four-track guest mix at DanceRadio.gr. Both these companies still operate, due to Hodgson’s friend and mentor DJ Rankin travelling down from Scotland to claim his slot at the school. DanceRadio had enough coding protection to halt any hacking from Hodgson, who had been suspected by our staff team of carrying out similar actions at my old site Digital-Angels.co.uk (formerly Tuna-Pie.com). Dean’s shows on station so far are either described as POPULAR & WONDERFUL. Which brings the next paragraph here to light.
Dean’s radio shows, websites and slogans all have a familiar feel to them. “Where have I seen that before?” is a common thought amongst the people I know who’ve had the pleasure of landing on his online doorstep. Without intentionally trying to look unoriginal, Dean at least shows some unique ability with the way he manages to consistently performs actions of both strange and bizarre purpose.
The most common people looked to for Dean Hodgson are Yorkshire radio DJ legend Alex Pepper, and myself, a former admin of various sites Dean visited and often trashed. Phrases such as “Trancemaster XXL” and “the freshest music, the biggest classics” were taken from Pepper’s then-successful Floorfillers Radio site, and added by Dean onto his webpage for the on-demand SHOUTcast stream he provided from his parent’s home, and also added to various forum accounts in an attempt to boost credibility. Pepper was approached by a user of his forum (I didn’t even have to say it, and I was already suspicious!) who noticed the strange behaviour and this led to Dean being the subject of heckling for weeks to come on the Floorfillers Radio chatroom. Since 2007, Hodgson has blatantly copied a 2005-born trance mix series by myself, even passing it off several times as his own in a self-created description of himself.
‘Dean has been very passionate about trance music ever since he was a little kid. Dean grew to love his music and that’s when he decided to launch his own Internet radio show. This is when the wonderful “Trancing It Up” radio show was created.’
There’s a really obvious “race” going on too, with his weekly versions of the show meaning his episode count is stacking up quickly. When he overtakes my episode count soon I expect an announcement…. God.
Various web forums have suffered over the past few years, with Dean intentionally trying to prise members away. Xtreme-Mp3s has had it’s slogan stolen, with itself, Digital-Angels, Dance-Empire all been imitated sometimes even word for word, category for category. Following my creation of a blog for the TIU mixes, Hodgson created one for his version of my series, making it’s appearance online in the last few months. Dean has now followed another dream of being the people he imitates, following the purchase of Tuna-Pie.com after it became available following his DJ stint which put the former forum on the road to closure (See paragraph 4). Dean has created a new version of the site, however merging styles from the old Tuna-Pie, Digital-Angels, Clubberz-Paradise, Dance-Empire and Xtreme-Mp3s, in a typical get-popular-quick method regularly used by the 18 year old and also many 12 year old net whizzkids / big-headed little shits.
Continue to the second part…
